The GSM selection ushered into China foreign network equipment and mobile phone vendors (Ericsson and Nokia, by holding important GSM patents, occupied an advantageous position for GSM network and handset development, which left Chinese firms in catch-up mode).
Blizzard is in full damage control mode after the internet assumed it was shutting down development on a World of Starcraft mod that violated their trademark, despite using their own in-game tool set.
Energy department officials have been using Sputnik to rally for more funding for clean energy research and development at a time when lawmakers are in the budget-cutting mode.
It is hoped the busway will ease congestion on the A14 and provide an alternative mode of transport for people living at a proposed new housing development in the area.
While the restaurant industry has been hammered over the past couple of years by a consumer-spending pullback, lower real-estate and development costs and lower rents have emerged as a tailwind for those chains still in expansion mode.